It's a 'Good Time:' Pop parody to be the soundtrack of video project promoted by Pure Michigan

View full sizeYfat Yossifor | Mlive.comAerial view of downtown Bay City and the Princess Wenonah in the Saginaw River.

BAY CITY, MI — A video featuring 50 Michigan communities and attractions, including Midland, Bay City and Saginaw, hopes to show viewers that the mitten state is "always a good time."

Starting Sunday, Aug. 19, a video crew from Grand Rapids-based firm Status Creative will be touring the state to capture footage of some of Michigan's finest attractions to compile into a music video. The team will be in the Great Lakes Bay Region Monday, Aug. 20, shooting scenes in Bay City, Midland, Saginaw and Frankenmuth as stops along their weeklong tour.

At each stop, community members will be asked to sing a line from a Michigan-themed parody of the Owl City and Carly Rae Jepsen song "Good Time," a pop tune currently listed 13th on Billboard's Top 100 charts, according to an email sent to Great Lakes Bay Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau Director of Tourism Lori
Amo from the Status Creative team.

The Pure Michigan advertising campaign is promoting the video, sharing updates via social media and providing an interactive map to follow the team on their website. Status Creative owner and co-founder Jeff Barrett also will be posting updates on his Twitter feed.

Each community is scheduled to be featured for a few seconds in the
video, and it's up to each location to determine what part of the city
will be on screen.

Midland will sing the line "Hands up if you're down with the mitten tonight."
Amo said the scene will feature the Tridge, Midland's three-way
footbridge. Crews are scheduled to arrive in Midland at about 1:30 p.m.

In Bay City, film crews will likely shoot off the deck of the excursion boat Islander, and attending community members will sing the line "We look up at twilight" from Wenonah Park with the Delta College Planetarium in the background. The scene is scheduled to be in the video for three seconds.

Interested Bay City residents can come to Wenonah Park at 2 p.m. Monday and meet at the Friendship Shell to prepare for the film crew, who should be in town by about 2:45, Bay City Downtown Management Board and Development Authority Executive Director Candace Bales said.

The Saginaw scene likely will feature the Temple Theatre, Amo said, and chorale members will sing part of the song's chorus when film crews come to shoot the scene at about 4 p.m.

Frankenmuth residents can take part in a scene in front of Bronner's Christmas Wonderland, singing "Checked out of the North Pole to Michigan" while placing gifts and ornaments into Santa’s sleigh. Camera crews are slated to arrive in Frankenmuth at about 5:30 p.m.

The video is meant to capture the spirit of Michigan and its inhabitants and show the world that Michigan is a great place to live, Barrett said Wednesday.